Your local church youth ministry gets just a few hours each week to make an investment in the lives of the young people who attend your church. In that time they are relationship building, teaching and holding our youth accountable to God's word. There is a lot of pressure for them to get it right, but is all of that pressure reasonable? Could our expectations for the breadth and scope of their impact be miscalculated?

In this episode, we explore what the role of the youth minister really is. What does it mean for them to meet the needs of the family's in our churches? How do parents and ministers optimize their partnership? What does it look like to make a meaningful investment in the lives of teens?

Today on the Postscript, Brandon Briscoe, Provost of Living Faith Bible Institute has invited Jeff Grasher, youth pastor and youth ministry instructor at LFBI to discuss what a healthy partnership between parents and a church's youth ministry could look like in light of Scripture.

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Pastor Lee Ridings of Greater Hope Baptist Church in Dallas, GA joins us to share how God prepared him for the pastorate. He tells personal stories of defining battles and corresponding victories which proved God's faithfulness and sharpened his character. These make-or-break trials and seasons in Lee's life became invaluable, ultimately proving his calling. Lee encourages young ministers who are desirous to lead in a pastoral capacity, that it is a good work (I Timothy 3:1) when done in dependance on the Lord for Christ's glory alone. We end this episode with a charge in II Timothy 2:5-7 to remind church leaders to choose faith over fear, and to operate in the very love, power and sound mind promised to us in Christ.

This week we speak with Pastor Troy Stogsdill of First Baptist Church of New Philadelphia, Ohio to get a glimpse into the sermon topics of the Living Faith Fellowship's Certainty Conference this year which will take place October 1-4, 2023.

The Certainty Conference is the Living Faith Fellowship’s annual doctrine conference where we address prevalent and important theological questions. The 2023 conference will be on the topic of “The Next Generation”.

Some of the questions the conference will be considering are, what does it mean to pass on our doctrinal DNA? How do we propagate a biblical theology and philosophy of ministry into future pastors and leaders?

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This week we have Pastor Joe McKaig of Decatur Baptist Church in Decatur, AL, who is the instructor of the Introduction to Homiletics course in the Living Faith Bible Institute. We are going to discuss what it means to be salt and light within the communities that we live.

What does it look like for the church to be a friend and support within their community? What does it mean for the pastor to shepherd the relationships they have with those outside of the church?

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In this episode we sit down with Cheryl Miles of Midtown Baptist Temple and hear her story of meeting, marrying & now supporting head pastor of MBT, Sam Miles.

We look at Brandon's biblical philosophy of ministry & what & who has contributed most to him leading leaders with love & passion for the Lord Jesus Christ.

We hear how God called Jeff Grasher to lead youth. His new role came with challenges like counseling, envisioning, and empowering young believers.

Pastor Chris Best shares how a children's ministry be conducive to learning and function as a support to what believing parents live and teach at home.

We continue with Pastor Joe McKaig of Decatur Baptist Church regarding a philosophy of ministry of a healthy church focussed on the right mission.

We discuss the elusiveness of happiness when it’s made life's ultimate goal. Brian opens the Bible on this topic revealing how truer happiness is a byproduct of a walk with God.

We look at a few common challenges pastors face. We talk about the biblical principles that counter potential pitfalls in the pastorate.

We look at both the cultural & biblically-critical keys for church services & ordinances. We then discuss the blessing of principle-guided leadership.

Andrew Ong shares Biblical principles as well as helpful tips for building relationships and sharing the gospel with people from different cultures.

We meet with Pastor Andrew Ong who oversees Friends of Internationals, a ministry dedicated to reaching internationals, particularly on college campuses.

In this episode, we are interviewing Music Director Eric Phillips about the ins and outs of a Biblical praise ministry.

Eric shares how God used worship ministry to build his faith as well as others in the midst of planting a church in Kansas City.

In this episode with Pastor Alan Shelby of Harvest Baptist Church we discuss ways in which people reject the writings of Paul. We discuss the tendency of the liberal scholars but focus the majority of our time discussing the "fundamentalists" failure to apply biblical principles according to scripture. A thought provoking call to true liberty in Christ.

In Episode 25 of the Postscript we speak with Missionary/Pastor Kale Horvath. In this interview we discuss youth ministry and his testimony of investing in kids. This conversation he challenges all of us to better understand the issues in youth ministry, the vision and how churches can support it.

In this episode we continue our conversation with Pastor Mark Trotter, instructor in Living Faith Bible Institute. In this episode Mark shares three crazy stories from his forty years of ministry. Legalism, mega-church marketing, and philandering leaders - each story holds a warning for the believer to focus on building the inner man through the grace of God's word. You don't want to miss this bizarre episode.

In this weeks episode we complete our series of conversations with Pastor Dan Reneau of Living Faith Lee's Summit. The conversation turns toward the Acts of the Apostles and the fearless examples we find in the book. Their lives provide us with great inspiration in how we should live today.